Mr & Mrs Smith: the war against marriage and masculinity
It was the slap that was heard all around the world. Will Smith stormed the stage at the 2022 Oscars…
Schools must return to a classical education
Evidenced by this week’s international CiRCE conference on classical education involving a number of Australian and American speakers, the good news…
The roar of waste
Watching the Burdekin Falls Dam with around six metres of water going over the spillway following recent rain in the…
How to waste an 80-seat majority
Cast your mind back to Channel 4’s election night programme. The 2019 exit poll results flash up on screen. Realising…
Does Rwanda offer the answer to Britain’s Channel migrant crisis?
Away from the well-merited focus on Ukraine, normal politics carries on in Britain. One has to poke around a bit…
The war on workers
It is been a familiar story in recent years: a Budget that sounded reasonably good when delivered, but that unravels…
China’s zero Covid crack-up
‘We’re being driven mad. Nobody is listening to us. They’ve politicised this disease.’ This week, the candid remarks of Zhu…
Bucha and the dark echoes of Srebrenica
High on a hillside not far from the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica the remains of dozens of young Muslim…
Could Marine Le Pen actually win?
Emmanuel Macron is worried. This wasn’t how he had envisaged the election. A month ago the president of France held…
Why does Twitter think Russian lies are OK but Trump isn’t?
So on Twitter you can lie about war crimes but you cannot tell the truth about biology? That is the…
Putin, Bucha and a tale of two Russias
The scenes of butchery and barbarism in the liberated Ukrainian towns of Bucha and Irpin and nearby villages – civilians…
The political crevice on patriotism
It used to be the case that writers, including many who were radical and left-wing, would enter the fray. The…
The story of oil
Don’t look to experts for predictions. ‘Experts’ are just as surprised by everyone else at what actually transpires each day…
‘Eat ze bug!!!’
Over the last few years, a bureaucratic body comprised of members from most countries around the world, has been undertaking…
Viktor Orbán is no friend of the West
Viktor Orbán‘s victory speech in Budapest on Sunday night took a curious turn. Speaking after a fourth landslide win, he…
Tory backlash over Channel 4 privatisation
Downing Street’s plan to privatise Channel 4 is already facing a Tory revolt – less than 24 hours after the…
Putin doesn’t need to seize Kyiv to destroy Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine took one step forward and two steps back in the search for an elusive peace settlement during…
Was another tragic Jewish death covered up in France?
Not for the first time in France the death of a Jew is dominating the news, and not for the…
Five hysterical reactions to Channel 4’s sell-off
Roll up, roll up! The great Channel 4 sell-off is now on. The Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries, is pushing ahead with…
Could the Corsica revolts spread all over France?
The Colonnas in Corsica are a bit like the Smiths in Britain. We are numerous. But in smart Parisian circles,…
Can the Switchblade drone win the war for Ukraine?
The United States is sending a new weapon to Ukraine in the fight against Russia: the Switchblade drone. At least 100 of…
Has the transgender bathroom question finally been answered?
As Keir Starmer still struggles to tell us what he thinks the word ‘woman’ means, some much-needed common sense has…
Rishi Sunak’s NFT gimmick is a step too far
We had got used to the expensive trainers. The carefully curated hoodies were just about acceptable. The Twitter feed was…
Russia’s ‘denazification’ project is only just beginning
Truth, infamously, is the first casualty of war. But the truth, in modern Russia, was critically wounded before it got…
The once and future Prince of Parramatta
Get on any bus speeding down Victoria Road and (on the right one), you land in Parramatta. It used to…
